95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB2538

 

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Harry Osterman

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 305/19.1   from Ch. 48, par. 138.19a

    Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the computation of time.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Workers' Compensation Act is amended by
5 changing Section 19.1 as follows:
 
6     (820 ILCS 305/19.1)  (from Ch. 48, par. 138.19a)
7     Sec. 19.1. The The time within which any act is required to
8 be performed under any of the provisions of this Act shall be
9 computed by excluding the first day and including the last,
10 unless the last day is Saturday, Sunday or is a holiday as
11 defined or fixed in any statute now or hereafter in force in
12 this State, and then such days shall also be excluded. If the
13 day succeeding such holiday is also a holiday then such
14 succeeding day shall also be excluded.
15 (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1733.)